2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

110 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
• Utilize pharmacological agents in management of the
respiratory system.
• Utilize manual and mechanical interventions in
management of the respiratory system.
• Distinguish between respiration, pulmonary ventilation,
and external and internal respiration.
• Describe pulmonary circulation.
• Describe voluntary, chemical, and nervous regulation
of respiration.
• Outline essential parameters to evaluate the effectiveness
of airway and breathing.
• Describe the indications, contraindications, and
techniques for supplemental oxygen delivery
• Discuss methods for patient ventilation.
• Describe the assessment techniques and devices
used to ensure adequate oxygenation.
Prereq. EMS 100
3 Credits 2 Weekly Lecture Hours
1 Weekly Laboratory Hours
EMS 136 Special Considerations -
Assessment Based Management Seminar
This course is designed to prepare the student to perform
and manage an effective assessment of the patient care.
Topics such as integrating pathophysiological principles,
physical examination findings, formulating a field
impression and implementing treatment for the patient
with common complaints will be thoroughly discussed.
Additionally, the student will be exposed to the appropriate
procedures to gather, evaluate and synthesize information
as well as make appropriate decisions based on that
information and take the necessary action for patient care.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Discuss how assessment-based management contributes
to effective patient and scene assessment.
• Describe factors that affect assessment and decision
making in the pre-hospital setting.
• Outline effective techniques for scene and patient
assessment and choreography of patient assessment and
personnel management.
• Identify essential take-in equipment for general and
selected patient situations.
• Outline strategies for patient approach that promote an
effective patient encounter.
• Describe techniques that permit efficient and accurate
presentation of the patient.
3 Credits 2 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
EMS 140 Trauma Systems and
Mechanism of Injury
This course is designed to provide the student with the
knowledge and skills to recognize the mechanisms of injury,
trauma systems, patient assessment and emergency care.
The course will also cover, in detail, the importance of the
length of time that elapses between the incident and definitive
care. Additionally, the course addresses the major roles
in death reduction in three periods of trauma: through
community education, scene interventions, and rapid
response. Trauma systems, appreciation of comprehensive
trauma systems, blunt trauma, and penetrating trauma will
be thoroughly discussed.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Describe the incidence and scope of traumatic injuries
and deaths.
• Identify the role of each component of the trauma system.
• Predict injury patterns based upon knowledge of the
laws of physics related to forces involved in trauma.
• Describe injury patterns that should be suspected when
injury occurs from blunt trauma.
• Describe the role of restraints in injury prevention and in
injury patterns.
• Discuss how an organ's motion may contribute to injury
in each body region depending on the forces applied.
• Identify selected injury patterns associated with
motorcycle and all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collisions.
• Describe injury patterns associated with
pedestrian collisions.
• Identify injury patterns associated with sports injuries,
blast injuries, and vertical falls.
• Describe factors that influence tissue damage related to
penetrating injuries.
5 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
4 Weekly Laboratory Hours
EMS 202 Emergency Medical
Management of Patients Contaminated
by Hazardous Materials
This course will provide the students with the
information necessary to assess and properly manage the
threats to self, co-workers and patients posed by victims
contaminated by hazardous materials. Recognition and
identification of the hazardous materials posing the threat
will be stressed. In addition, steps necessary to comply
with consensus and regulatory standards such as OSHA
1910.120 and JCAHO are presented.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Describe the means by which the hazardous materials
contaminating the victim may be identified.
• Employ reference manuals and sources to determine an
appropriate pre-hospital medical protocol for initiating
patient care.
• Demonstrate contamination reduction practices necessary
to protect emergency response staff.
• Demonstrate appropriate procedures for decontaminating
the victim prior to initiating patient care.
• Demonstrate ability to select and utilize appropriate
hazardous materials personal protective equipment.
• Describe record keeping procedures necessary to
establish an OSHA-required hazardous materials
exposure file for each responder exposed to the
hazardous material.
1 Credit
EMS 203 Introduction to Advanced
Life Support I
This course is designed to provide the student with the
necessary knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of
advanced life support systems and procedures. Topics such
as medical/legal ethics, drug information, the cardiovascular
system, and proper medication administration will be
presented. Experiments and case studies will be presented
during this course.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Define the roles and responsibilities of the paramedic in
the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) system as they
relate to history, system development, education,
research, and continuous quality improvement.
• Describe the individual's role in providing emergency
patient care.
• Outline the individual's role in promoting community
health education, wellness, and prevention.
• Identify professional, ethical, legal and moral
accountability issues and situations.
• Identify the proper use and administration of drugs for
various body systems.
Prerequisite: BIO 150 – Human Anatomy and Physiology I,
Certification as a curent Emergency Medical Technician
4 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
EMS 205 Introduction to Advanced
Life Support II
This course is a continuation of Introduction to Advanced
Life Support I and is designed to stress practices applicable
to the paramedic practitioner. Emphasis will be placed on
medication application, pharmacology and therapeutic
concepts and practices. Various approaches are covered to
ensure that the student receives broad exposure to all
areas required for the paramedic practitioner. Experiments
and case studies will be presented during this course.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify the components of human anatomy and
physiology as they relate to care for the sick or injured.
• Explain pharmacological characteristics, mathematical
principles and purpose in administering pharmacological
agents.
• Identify communication strategies necessary to collect
information, interview and assess patients.
Coreq. EMS 203
2 Credits 1 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
EMS 210
Medical Emergencies I
This course is designed to prepare the paramedic student
to manage numerous types of medical emergencies. Topics
including the etiology and epidermiology of cardiopulmonary
diseases and conditions will be discussed as well as
the means to identify and describe the function of the
cardiopulmonary system.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify the risk factors and prevention education of
cardiovascular disease processes.
• Distinguish pathophysiology of respiratory emergencies
related to ventilation, diffusion, and perfusion.
• Assess causes, complications, and conditions of the
cardiopulmonary system.
• Describe the anatomy and physiology of the
cardiopulmonary system.
• Identify the electrophysiology of the cardiac system.
• Describe cardiovascular disease processes.
• Distinguish among varied techniques in managing
cardiac and pulmonary emergencies.
• Apply emergency intervention on patients suffering from
cardiopulmonary conditions.
• Describe anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
• Identify disorders of the nervous, endocrine, and
gastrourinary systems.
• Identify neurological disorders.
• Describe causative agents and the pathophysiology of
ingested poisons.
• Assess acute abdominal pain. Specify disorders of the
endocrine system.
• Describe the anatomy and physiology of the
endocrine glands that assist the body in the
maintenance of homeostasis.
• Describe the antigen antibody response.
• Describe signs and symptoms and management
of allergic reactions.
• Describe signs and symptoms, complications, and
pre-hospital management of gastrointestinal disorders.
Credits
3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
EMS 211
Medical Emergencies II
This course is a continuation of Medical Emergencies I,
and it is designed to provide the student with additional
information necessary to effectively perform in medical
emergency situations. Emergencies pertaining to neurology,
endocrinology, allergies and anaphylaxis, gastroenterology,
urology, and toxicology will be discussed. In addition, topics
include, but are not limited to, hematology, environmental
conditions, and behavioral disorders.
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